P572 + 2018? There goes another year. 12 months of arts and crafts, musical discoveries and big ideas. It went by in a weird and experimental way. P572 has its own speed these days. But it’s always been like that really. Not trying to compete with anyone else, but making our own small yet important path.

Here are some of our 2018 highlights: There were the 16 shows in 16 days on the Euro Solo Tour for Oromocto Diamond. Then the Pantoum Quebec Social Club live recording session. After spending two years on the design we finally put together, in collaboration with 7ième Ciel, the holographic Alaclair Ensemble deluxe double LP. Lesbo Vrouven was on tour in the fall playing new songs and celebrating the vinyl release of their 2008 LP Encore la mort. Their new album will be called D _ _ _ _ G _ _ _ D _ _ _ _ _ . Team Pochette (Sam Murdock + Gab Pelletier) were busy all year long creating album art for many wonderful artists like Claude Bégin, Koriass and Jérôme 50. There were also some low key, but no less special, postcard and digital releases on Mutefakemusic and Punkest Tardo.

2019 will be the 15th year of the small independent label that is P572. We will be digging deep into the archives to make a book, and to find some rare items and test pressings for auction. You will also hear new music from the likes of Headache24, Lesbo Vrouven, Oromocto Diamond, L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres, Fourche, Rotting Ebitan, Vice & V.I.Street, Recyclage, (swedish) Death Polka, Billy Wilf, amongst others…

P572 is a small record label with a lot of heart. We try to make everything pretty and special, which takes a lot of time. In a flash it was spring wet and then summer warm, busy with ideas and friends around helping with everything. In an amazing creative rush we are finally releasing limited edition handnumbered vinyls by Alaclair Ensemble, Lesbo Vrouven and Fabien Cloutier. You can find more details about all this around the internet and inside the seasonal fanzine. Let’s always listen to new music. Tu pensais qu’c’tait ça que c’tait, mais c’tait pas ça que c’tait.

P572 SUMMER 2017
Summer is for vacations and road trips. It exists for outdoor concerts, to go to the beach and to catch up on all the winter books. So many things happened since the springtime. Juste Robert won the important SOCAN prize for best song at the Festival de Petite-Vallée. Oromocto Diamond played a record 24 shows in 20 days on their Flin Flon Euro Tour, and they released new music on the Atlantis EP tape. Lesbo Vrouven ended their Grifff Pifff tour on a sunny Sunday at the Festival d’été de Québec. There’s also always weird random music on our sub label Punkest Tardo. But summer is also the infinite marathon to get ready for the fall. After years of hard planning to put together vinyl projects everything is released all at once: Les Goules, L’orchestre d’hommes-orchestres, (swedish) Death Polka and Fabien Cloutier. Very, very soon it will be turning on the tables!

OROMOCTO DIAMOND: The Flin Flon Euro Tour 2017 was 24 shows in 20 days, booked in unlikely places like basements, apartments, on a farm and on a boat. Wonderful friends put so much energy into organizing unforgettable nights in the best cities. The new album was all composed between shows on trains and by the ocean. Now we have to record it, in recognition of the infinite inspiration we get. Thank you, we will be back soon, and here’s some tour photos.